Iron Jawed Angels - Ms. Dyer's English Nook
Iron Jawed Angels
Short Answer: Using the following list of answers, fill in the blanks with the correct answer to each question.
Answer Bank: Some answers may be used more than once, or not at all.
anemia martyrs Doris Stevens Lucy Burns
Inez Milholland tuberculosis Senator Burns National Women’s Party
Mabel Vernon Pankhurst Agitators war measure Carrie Chapman Catt
enlighteners Alice Paul Washington Post a halo
Philadelphia, Pa. Washington, D.C. heroes political prisoners
Ben Weissman hope purity Ida Wells-Barnett
innocent Theodore Roosevelt Ruza Wenclawska Emily Leighton
San Francisco, Ca. wings Senator Leighton World War I
Anna Howard Shaw loyalty & dignity silent sentinels World War II
18th Amendment 19th Amendment Woodrow Wilson polio
parade ball fundraiser carriage
white horse tiger train airplane
_______________ 1-2. Name the two dynamic young women who put their lives on the line _______________ to fight for American women’s right to vote in Iron Jawed Angels.
_______________ 3-5. In Philadelphia, September 1912, the two young suffrage activists _______________ meet with _____ and _____, the current heads of NAWSA’s _______________ committee in _____ (city).
_______________ 6-7. Their first big event, a _____ to promote women’s suffrage, occurs
_______________ on March 3, 1913, just one day before the presidential inauguration
of _____.
_______________ 8-10. _____, a labor lawyer, rides a _____ in the 1913 suffrage _______________ parade and wears _____, a reference to the angel figure incorporated _______________ into suffragist imagery, representing their idealized vision of Justice
and Liberty.
_______________ 11. _____, a crusading journalist, women’s advocate, and co-founder of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenged NAWSA’s leaders for failing to take a stand against racial segregation—by marching with the Illinois delegation, rather than at the back of the parade with the other black women’s suffrage groups.
_______________ 12. The young, radical activists clash with the older, conservative
suffragists over how to approach their goal—the former push for a constitutional amendment while the latter prefer to follow the request of the president and seek the right to vote “state-by-state.” This causes
the young suffragists to break away from NAWSA in 1916 and form their own organization called _____.
_______________ 13-14. _____ collapses and dies from _____ in San Francisco while _______________ campaigning for women’s suffrage. Her last public words were, “Mr.
President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
_______________ 15. Which war begins after the young, radical suffragists develop a new
strategy—to daily picket the White House in a civil disobedience campaign?
_______________ 16. The suffragettes/picketers are arrested on the trumped-up charge of
“obstructing traffic” and sentenced to 60 days in a women’s prison in Occoquan, Virginia. They insist that they are _____ and demand to wear their own clothes, food, and pen and paper with which to write
their families; they are denied.
_______________ 17. _____ goes on a hunger strike, is denied counsel, placed in a
straitjacket, and subjected to a psychiatric examination. She is returned to the prison’s general population where she leads her fellow suffragettes on a hunger strike.
_______________ 18. The warden begins force-feeding them in retaliation, to prevent them
from becoming _____.
_______________ 19. The suffragettes’ ordeal is leaked to the press, and _____ seizes the
moment to press the president into supporting the suffrage amendment as the women are released from prison.
_______________ 20. In 1918, the president endorses women’s suffrage as a _____ in a
congressional speech; the Suffrage Amendment passes the United States House by exactly a two-thirds vote; it loses by 2 votes in the Senate.
_______________ 21. In 1919, the United States House votes 304 to 90 to pass the _____,
and the Senate approves it 56 to 25; it is sent to the states for ratification.
_______________ 22. In 1920, Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the suffrage
amendment when which state senator casts the deciding vote, after receiving a telegram from his mother? The Susan B. Anthony amendment becomes law on August 26, 1920, guaranteeing all U.S. women the right to vote.
_______________ 23. The colors used by the suffragists on their banners were significant,
gold/yellow connoted light and the role of women as _____.
_______________ 24-26. Purple, white, and green were adopted from the British suffrage
_______________ movement with purple symbolizing _____, white symbolizing ____, _______________ and green symbolizing _____.
_______________ 27. Who said, “A vote is a fire escape,” to persuade her fellow factory
workers?
_______________ 28. Who said, “We shall fight for the things which we have always
carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments.”?
_______________ 29. Who said, “Look into your own heart, I swear to you, mine’s no
different. . . You want a voice in the government under which you live? So do I.”?
_______________ 30. Who said, “We are being imprisoned not because we obstructed
traffic, but because we pointed out to the President the fact that he was obstructing the cause of democracy at home, while Americans were fighting for it abroad.”?
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